Hendrix College welcomes Dr. Ira Helfand of the International Campaign
to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for a public lecture. Helfand is the
recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize and co-President
of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the
founding partner of ICAN and itself the recipient of the 1985 Nobel
Peace Prize. He is also Co-Founder and Past President of Physicians for
Social Responsibility, IPPNW’s U.S. affiliate.
He represented ICAN at the Oslo and Nayarit Conferences on the
Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear War, and in September of 2015 he
addressed a special session of the United Nations General Assembly. In
May 2016, he led the session on the humanitarian consequences
of nuclear war at the United Nations Open Ended Working Group meeting in
Geneva that led to the successful negotiation of the Treaty on the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in the summer of 2017, and on September
20, 2017, he represented IPPNW at the signing
ceremony for the Treaty. He has published studies on the medical
consequences of nuclear war in the New England Journal of Medicine, the British Medical Journal, the Lancet and the World Medical Journal, and has lectured worldwide
on the health effects of nuclear weapons.
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